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WILD LEEK PRESS INAUGURAL POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION WINNERS

JUNE 1, 2017

Wild Leek Press is pleased to announce the winners of the Wild Leek Press Inaugural Poetry Chapbook Competition and would like to thank all who entered. We are honored to have final guest poetry judge Ron Rash for our inaugural competition and so many excellent submissions. We are also happy to announce that within the same pool of submitters we expanded the inaugural competition to include winners for both letterpress printing methods and modern printing methods, and guest poetry judge Ron Rash chose the winner for each category. We will be sending individual letters to all submitters. Wild Leek Press will have information on purchasing the forthcoming chapbooks and broadsides soon.

Letterpress Printing:
1^st Place: A Book of Birds by Susan Rae Sampson
A Book of Birds will be published as a completely letterpress-printed, hand bound chapbook using handset movable type.
2^nd Place: Chimney Birds by Jonathan Greene
One poem from Chimney Birds will be printed as a letterpress-printed broadside using handset movable type.